Did you (do you) suck in gym?

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they told me toe-walking was bad for me... i stopped it after a classmate commented on it. scarcely realized it half the time. i had, like, no stamina for swimming, but my form was great. i had fun in some sports. wait a sec... i wonder if that's one of the reasons my gym teacher hated me in seventh grade? i kid you not, she was hostile! the reason was not that i was having fun (hopefully not... yeesh!) but that i probably had the aspie stare or acted weird or something. hmph. gymnastics was my favorite. football was blegh, mostly. i got by ok. basketball was my favorite and volleyball my least. i got yelled at for that, in response . i think hockey was my favorite, and it helped that i was head over heels obsessed with the sport. that always helps. way too aggressive in four-square apparently. girls didn't like it. w/e. it was fun. in high school, played field hockey, did track (throwing), and shot rifles. also, played soccer with a bunch of a**holes, some parties accepted. i wish we played more soccer in gym, that would have been cool.

ack, there really shouldn't be any pressure to work out. i don't know why there is. it's all "pressure pressure pressure!" it should be about relaxing and having fun, right? in my hs, there was a competitive sport option and an easy sport option, which was always offered. always ended up in competitive, but w/e. not the worst. i was always that quiet kid no one really bothered with.



they do. they give you letters in exchange for you taking the test. mine was the same every year. it's designed so you know what you can improve on. i never took it seriously, but my parents did for some reason? they care. but anyway, no curriculum is changed. you get your choice of classes and that's that. some schools may not offer that option, though.

i am done rambling on and on and on....

yes, flat-out

In the early grades, I did poorly, as I was very clumsy and wanted to simply stay in the corner and daydream or look at the patterns in the wood grain of the bleachers. I really saw absolutely no point to Gym class before third or fourth grade. (it didn't help at all that my teacher was my father's old basketball coach - the went to the state championship and my father was team captain - needless to say, I had a lot to live up to, and caught flack for being the antithesis of that ideal). By highschool, however, I 'came around' and became bit of a Jock... In ability, that is, but not in personality... I hung out with the wierd Grunge/Goth/artsey kids and played death metal. Go figure.

+1

I'm not for "pussifying" a generation of kids, but it's clear that not all kids possess equal athletic ability, and activities should be geared for their natural abilities and interests. This way kids can learn to enjoy being active and healthy rather than hating it because they were no good at the chosen sports and, as such, come to hate PE as a whole.

It's the same town. D. was born in a larger city but I moved back. I don't know why. The girls could have been rolling theirs eyes and making faces and I wouldn't have seen it.

I second that motion(and emotion)

Yeah I sucked... Gym made my writing-notes-in-mums-handwriting skills a lot better though

Kind of unrelated but I remember in freshman year when we were doing gymnastics a girl leaped over the horse and landed on her wrist. I said "Looks broken to me" and the teacher whipped her head around and shushed me. The girl went into hysterics. It was broken btw. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to state the obvious.

I can relate to you. I was the opposite in weight---I was very skinny and tall. I hated gym class. I wasn't coordinated well, and it was confusing to know what to do like in kickball. Am I supposed to steal the base or not? Who am I supposed to throw the ball to? I can't tell...help!! !

High school gym class was the worst. We had to have two credits of it so it was taken the Freshman and Sophomore years (for me the years of 1979-1980 and 1980-1981). Our school had co-ed gym class, and I was somewhat self-consicous (not so much when I was grade school age, but after the body begins changing due to hormones---yes---and I was so skinny). It seemed like the only game the teacher ever had us play was basketball (ughhh!). I was terrible at it. And to make matters worse, he divided our teams up into two teams---the "Shirts" and the "Skins". Almost everytime (and it may have been everytime) the team I was placed on was the "Skins". So---there went the shirt in front of not only the guys, but the girls too . And the gym shorts we had to wear back then were like super short, but we had tube socks we pulled up to your knees. So if feeling awkard enough due to being lousy at gym sports wasn't enough, I spent most of gym class half-naked. I look back on that and wonder about the teacher doing this. Why was he so obsessed about doing this? And as Elementary_Physics said, why do people have to socialize when you are in the shower? At the end of gym class, Mr. M would say, "Get to the showers." Then as we were showering, he would watch. His reason? To make sure we didn't get in a fight because of the one team losing? It was a relief to go to math class.

I hate gym with a passion. I hated getting into that stupid one-piece suit with the puffy legs that was way too large for me even though it was a size small. I hated the anxiety that came from knowing I would fail and be laughed at and would not be picked until last for any team play. I feared getting hit by the dodge ball thrown buy some big bruiser of a girl for whom I was usually the target. It actually made me sick to go out on the gym floor but I had to or I would fail and get an "F" and I couldn't accept getting an "F" in anything. I hated having to strip naked and take showers afterward, and I hated how the gym teacher patrolled the showers to make sure we were truly naked. Every gym teacher I ever had was a Lesbian and I have nothing against Lesbians, but back then, I didn't know what Lesbians were and when the other girls said "Miss Gosnay is a Lesbian," it scared the s**t out of me. They would say "Don't let Gosnay get ya." Then I moved to another school with another Lesbian gym teacher and the same crap all over again and being sick in my stomach and having anxiety attacks so I just said to hell with it and starting cutting gym class and hanging out with the juvenile delinquents and getting "Fs".

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That's the word, proprioception. Thank you for reminding me, I couldn't remember for the life of me.

I can remember having "marginal" balance as a child and then my parents enrolled me into a karate class. I was only in it for a year, but it helped a bit and the movements were broken down for me. The sensei spent quite a bit of time helping me out.



I agree. Of all the classes, gym is the class where children are singled out for differences or perceived weaknesses. When you mentioned toe walking, I used to run constantly on my toes. This seemed very good for sprinting (I was one of the fastest) but very bad for distance running. I finally managed to teach myself to run with a heal strike....it was very difficult though.



I can remember guys with your body type who were nearly as uncomfortable about their shape as girls who were overweight....I felt very bad. I can absolutely relate to what you're saying as far as not knowing what to do in a game. If I somehow caught the ball, I would stand there with the "dear in the headlights" look. LOL!!

I sucked in gym. I was terrible. The last one picked for any team.

Oddly enough, I did not suck outside of gym. When I played pickup games with friends in the neighborhood I was just fine. It was purely gym-based suckiness. There was something about the pressure of the coach yelling at me to do better and the other kids (who were not my neighborhood friends) pressuring me to make their team win that just made me cave under all that pressure. I would be the worst kid on any team in school. And then in the neighborhood pickup game of the exact same game I would shine. Because I was among neighborhood friends and not any pressure. So I guess my suckiness was mental and not physical.

I definitely sucked at gym, whether it was being the main Dodgeball target in elementary school, to not being fast enough when running the mile, or being able to score even a 2 point shot in basketball. I had those gym teachers who graded on how well you did in each sport, not that you suited up and tried your best, so gym class was my second worst class of the day, aside from math(algebra and beyond).

Fortunately, in high school, I was able to use being in the marching band every fall as credit for taking gym. I think that the reason why I hate running to this day was having to run the mile in gym class at least once a week. I do exercise now, but it's doing things I enjoy such as the eliptical, rowing machine, and weight training at the gym.

Yeah, pretty much. It was a lot worse in the early grades than it is now, although it's still a little awkward for me sometimes.

I used to get picked on in gym a lot back then, but it only happens a little bit these days. If I make some sort of mistake, I'll just try to laugh at myself and hope nothing happens after that...

hi Aimless, i am sorry to hear that your boy was being picked on, it is unfair and uncalled for.

i was pretty bad in gym class, it is the only subject that i ever rated a C in, just scraping through.

my coordination was not so great, my endurance was pretty bad, i suffered from asthma, i wore (and still wear) glasses, i didn't have any interest being in gym class/participating in team sports... getting picked last(ish) sort of goes without saying.

as i got older i found that i could write my own notes and eventually i just stopped participating and went to the library instead of attending gym. in years 11 and 12 gym was not compulsory.

i did quite well academically, was not a trouble-maker, and got along well with my teachers (better than most others) so me disappearing to the library was not a big deal - they knew where i was. on athletic/swimming carnival days i would not attend school at all.

interesting to note that even as an adult my lack of interest in sport can encourage a not-so-nice response and certainly adds to my "strange" image. such is the way of society; the alpha types will always be elevated, worshipped, emulated, and then cruelly torn down so the next one can pop up... sport dominates the news and newspapers and the masses are distracted*.

in saying all this, i maintain a good diet and cycle daily so no loss on that front - i just cannot muster interest in team or group activity.

*please pardon my rant.

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In gym when we were tested for push ups, I did three.

I was always picked last for teams. One of my classmates who is in a wheelchair would get picked before me.